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In this Oct. 17, 2014, file photo, Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, is seen at the Pentagon. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Waiver for retired Gen. Lloyd Austin draws skepticism from congressional Dems

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech for the U.S. troops at the U.S. Yokota Air Base, on the outskirts of Tokyo, Sunday, Nov. 5, 2017. President Trump arrived in Japan Sunday on a five-nation trip to Asia, his second extended foreign trip since taking office and his first to Asia. The trip will take him to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and Philippines for summits of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Poland dumps ‘rhetorical musing’ after 2020 elections, scraps plans to construct ‘Fort Trump’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, an American flag is flown next to the Chinese national emblem during a welcome ceremony for visiting U.S. President Donald Trump outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

US adds Chinese chipmaker, oil giant to security blacklist

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump's campaign advisor Corey Lewandowski, listens to a speaker during a news conference on legal challenges to vote counting in Pennsylvania, Saturday, Nov. 7, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

Corey Lewandowski, David Bossie — Trump allies — tapped for Pentagon’s Defense Business Board

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Damian T. Donahoe, deputy commanding general, Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa, center, talks with service members during a battlefield circulation Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, in Somalia. No country has been involved in Somalia's future as much as the United States but now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the nation at what some experts call the worst possible time. (Senior Airman Kristin Savage/Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa via AP)

Donald Trump orders ‘majority’ of U.S. troops out of Somalia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Sunday, March 30, 2014, file photo, Islamic State group militants hold up their flag as they patrol in a commandeered Iraqi military vehicle in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Christopher Maier, DoD’s top Defeat-ISIS official, resigns amid Pentagon purge

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

President Trump visited Warsaw, Poland, during his first year in office and spoke with Polish President Andrzej Duda about a U.S. military base in September 2018. (Associated Press)

‘Fort Trump’ in Poland replaced by Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President-elect Joe Biden pauses as he speaks during a virtual meeting with the United States Conference of Mayors at The Queen theater Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Presidential transition begins at the Pentagon

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE — This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. Defense officials say a Trump loyalist and former Fox News commentator has been moved in to the Pentagons top policy job, just a few months after he failed to get through Senate confirmation because of offensive remarks he made, including about Islam. Officials say Anthony Tata, a retired Army one-star general, will be performing the duties of the undersecretary for defense policy. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Anthony Tata, Pentagon policy chief, has COVID-19

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 27, 2008 file photo shows the Pentagon in Washington. In a first for the Pentagon's push to develop defenses against intercontinental-range ballistic missiles capable of striking the United States, a missile interceptor launched from a U.S. Navy ship at sea hit and destroyed a mock ICBM in flight on Tuesday, officials said. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Top Pentagon official tests positive for coronavirus

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 15, 2020 file photo, Chief of Space Operations at United States Space Force Gen. John Raymond, left, and Chief Master Sgt. Roger Towberman, right, hold the U.S. Space Force flag as President Donald Trump walks past it, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. On Sept. 1, 2020, Space Force, the first new U.S. military service since the creation of the Air Force in 1947 swore in some 20 members stationed at the Al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar in its first foreign deployment. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Joe Biden pressured to scrap Space Force

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this June 10, 2017, photo provided by Operation Resolute Support, U.S. soldiers with Task Force Iron maneuver an M-777 howitzer, so it can be towed into position at Bost Airfield, Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon brushes aside criticism, moves ahead with troop drawdowns in Afghanistan, Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on developments in the Department of Defense by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Will Trump’s firings at Department of Defense help end the U.S. presence in Afghanistan?

By Abraham Wagner

In this Nov. 28, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump smiles before addressing members of the military during a surprise Thanksgiving Day visit at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Trump to order further troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, Iraq before inauguration: Report

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2019, file photo and provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, meets with representatives of the aircraft carrier unit and the manufacturer at a naval port in Sanya, southern China's Hainan Province. Seventy-five years after Japan's surrender in World War II, and 30 years after its economic bubble popped, the emergence of a 21st century Asian power is shaking up the status quo. As Japan did, China is butting heads with the established Western powers, which increasingly see its growing economic and military prowess as a threat. (Li Gang/Xinhua News Agency via AP, File)

‘No doubt’ China is upgrading its nuclear power to be on par with U.S., Russia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller speaks during a meeting with Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Raimundas Karoblis at the Pentagon, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Christopher Miller, Pentagon chief, signals end to Middle East wars

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on withdrawing from Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington times

Nothing ‘reckless’ about U.S. withdrawing from unwinnable Afghan war

By Daniel L. Davis

Congress downplays timing of Afghanistan hearing in wake of Mark Esper’s firing

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

China expanding nuclear arms plants revealed

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 12, 2009, photo, the Pentagon is seen from Air Force One. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

GOP budget plan includes $68.7 billion for secretive Pentagon fund

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times